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p ir year.turo dollars â€” payable in if not paid in advance two dollars . will e charged nserted al 1 forthe first and 25 cts uent insertion court orders clnrged ier than iliese rates a liberal deduc who advertise by the year ;: litors must be post pnid r_______r ( ! k \ x v li x d's fi rst co n c e rt lenny lind's first concert look place at i j ; uiicii i\ew york on wednesday 'â€¢ ening 1,1<j created the greatest excite 6 nt as par'y as 4 0'clÂ°cl in he after j 01 ' the battery was thronged by the ., ir multitude and every avenue lead ; c a io the building was completely block i 1 fup a despatch to the philadelphia : inqu'rer say8 :. , , â€¢ . the reception was truly enthusiastic j t[,e applause deafening which contin ue for some time her singing thrilled nd delighted every one whose privilege '.,, .- i gel within the enclosure of cas ' garden and expectation high as it j w8sl satisfied in every respect it is thought he audience numbered at the ' teast calculation 5.0u0 persons a slight disturbance occurred owing no doubt to the immense throng which had assembled we are pleased to say it was promptly an immense crowd collected to . eetber outside alter her fust appearance i f|,ug passed oil one of the mosl brilliant receptions ever witnessed in the united states \ despatch lo the philadelphia sun thus speaks of the audience and the appear j ance of jenny lind : such an assemblage as here met my i eve 1 never saw before except in the same ; place more than a quarter of a century | since at the ball given to lafayette the i whole vast amphitheatre was lilled with ! ladies gentlemen and boquets the appearance of jenny lind was the signal lor a furore of applause wmich lasted lor some minutes ; shout upon shout ! rent the air and boquet upon boquet flew i through it towards the " nightingale un j til the stage looked like the gardens ot j gul iti their bloom at last silence was j effected and the very first pause at the | second bar of casta diva gave me ev j from the charlotte journal a friend in union county has furnished us with the following account of tbe de structive effect of the late hurricane in in the lower part of that county and the upper part of lancaster district s c â€” never in the recollection of the oldest citizen has such a tornado visited this section indeed the whole length and breadth of the nation has in some degree felt its devastating effects destructive tornado on saturday the 24th ultimo about 5 o'clock p m ., this neighborhood was visi ted by one of the fiercest hurricanes i have ever heard of in this country it commenced somewhere in lancaster dis trict s c in the vicinity of col thomas w huey's near the house of maj john neshet's passing thence a due north course unroofing an out-house of mr franklin nesbet thence levelling the trees as it went in the vicinity of tirzah church in union county n c ; thence by mr james walkup's on waxhaw creek unroofing his dwelling house and outhouses throwing down a stable and crippling a horse thence through col wm walkup's plantation levelling two outhouses with the ground and doing much injury to the crops ; thence direct by capt r s colvert's where it toreoffthe , roof from his dwelling house throwing : down to the ground both his chimneys and moving the house some three or four ; feet levelling his barn and stables cribs | smokehouse and all his outhouses save j the kitchen to the sills and killing one ! horse and crippling another ; thence thro the carolina watchman i have not heard of a single individual be | ing seriously injured nor of any horses j | or other live stock being hurt except those j i above mentioned every one along ihe j | course of this hurricane which scattered â€¢' hideous ruin and destruction to all in j ! animate objects feel that their escape was j j providential was miraculous and they ! â– feel thankful to him who " rides upon the whirland and who directs the storm for i his providential interference the neighbors in general have exhibi â– ted a commendable sympathy and liber ality in assisting to repair the injury of the . storm ; but after all that has been or that will be done the persons injured will be . greatly the losers union september 7 1850 i the appropriation bill â€” the appropria tion bill which passed the house of congress embraces the following items : legislative 753,644 50 \ i treasury department 335.750 00 1 contingencies of ditto 63.195 00 department of interior 157.472 75 , : contingencies of ditto 49,745 00 , war department 85.690 00 j contingencies of ditto 43.960 00 navy department 75.350 00 contingencies of ditto 11,775 00 i post office departments 86,720 00 . executive 30.000 00 , department of slate 63.160 00 lihrarv of congress 44.300 00 ', j mints 162,177 00 , oregon & minnesota territories 82,700 00 i i judiciary 697,937 00 i i light houses 574.487 31 i hospitals 99,303 42 ! surveys of public lands 249.759 46 i intercourse with foreign nations 431.400 00 ( ' miscellaneous 2.499.853 96 ! bishop doaxe upon zachary tavlor we find in the churchman of this city i the first instalment of the published ser mon of right rev geo v doane on the j death of president taylor from the text j ii samuel iii 38 know ye not that there is a prince and a great man fallen this day in israel we wish we could find space for the whole of it in our col | umns for a more eloquent and loftily con ceived tribute to the memory of the de ceased patriot we have not yet met with as it is we must content ourselves wilh a ; few extracts v v express * ua man has fallen i do not mean a mere male human indi ; vidua ; one who the tailor rather than the 1 mantuamaker clothes : a walking thing lhat wears a hat i speak of that which ; god meant when he said let us make i man in our image after our likeness â€” ' marred sadly now by the concussion of that fearful fall ; but capable of restora tion through the cross and justifying ( well in the renewal of its fair proportions and its countenance erect the sacred re cord god hath made man upright a man that has a mind and used it ; a man that shapes his circumstances ; a man that cares not for himself a man with the sim plicity of a child ; a man in justice : a man in generosity ; a man in magnanim ity ; a man to meet emergencies ; a man to make occasions ; a man to dare not â– only but to bear ; a man to love ; a man j without fear ; a thunderbolt in war a dew ; drop in the day of peace one that j against fearful odds of five to one could till raleigh star in answer to the remarks we made concerning t its position on the subject of somber rights ' in our piper of the 12th instant sa : we leave i lo the intelligent reader to judge whether ii is in our bungling si v !_â€¢ or in the ob tuseness it those who have failed to apprehend our po^iii m on ibis subject ibal renders it ne ; cess.iry t .... there are some | of our quasi friends who win noi understand j but we are not disp oil to c iss our old liiend ; of ihe watchman in this category and are will ing to take his 'â€¢ remarks in good part and answer them in a fraternal spirit fur our ideas in d.-iaii we must beg the ed ; itor to refer to i ui files our present purpose is t.i state very briefly and we i nut explicit ly the position we bare occupied and stilt maintain wilh respect !â– > southern rights we have never been dispos d to bluster or agitate we cherish with devotion ihe great and glorious american union and venerate that matchless instrument â€” the constitution this we consider the great chatter of our lib erties â€” aiid this must be preserved inviolate if we would maintain our freedom as individuals â€” our sovereignty a independent states â€” our invincible power and coi - _ andeuras a great hap y and gl ri as l â– â€¢:â€¢ w e do not believe ilii 1 consolidated govern ment all rights not expressly surrendered under the federal organization are in the lan guage of the const it ui ion u reserved to the slates respectively or the people we have no advocated dissolution secession or anv oih ] er revolulionaij movement though it is our linn conviction lhat some such art ion iu ease of ex . treme oppression is the inherent right of the injured party be it a single state or a moity of them all we do not believe ihis period has arrived and we pray heaven that sad day fore shadowing the hoi iid storms ot civil war to america and black night to the cause of free dom throughout the world may never visit our prosperous land hut who can let how soon ii may be forced upon us by the mad final icism of northern aggression ' it is not necessary here to speak of iheir palpable and dailv vio latioiis of that most sacred of human obliga tions â€” the constitution of the united slates suffice it to say it has been icpeatedly and grossly violated and all their obligations and all our rights have been deliberately trampled 1 upon it behooves us then as freemen â€” asde seendants of revolutionary soldiers â€” to pre pare ourselves for the worst let us tell our northern bretlfren in the spirit of conciliation ( new series do this axd ltbektvis safe < gen i harrison ( volume vii number 20 j j bruner ' kelp a cnr.ck cro all your \ rulers editor 4 proprietor salisbury n c thursday september 26 1850 and traced much ol both to the intemperate use of ardent spirits he drew a most humil iating but true picture ofthe present congress of the united states â€” asserted that while members of both houses of congress were making one or two topics the monomaniac themes of iheir speeches for the sake of their eight dollars per day many of ihem were roll ing in filth drinking themselves to death and disgracing the districts and states they were unfortunately representing the public cor ruption of morals in congress and national sins received at his hands their just share of rebuke in the midst of the general catalogue of iniquities the origin and spread of which ho traced to ihe use of ardent spirits mr while staled in reference to the church es thai nineteen twentieths of the methodist clergy united with the sons in the temper ance reform wherever he went in canada or these united slates the missionary baptists also came lo the rescue â€” the new school pres byterians gave the cause their aid but it pained him to state that the episcopal church of which he was a member stood aloof with but few exceptions some of the bishops of lhat church actually wrole treaties and de livered set discourses against the sons and charged the sons of promoting the cause of infidelity thai church he was sorry to say had won for itself the unenviable sobriquet ol the rum church how could it be other wise when this mystery of iniquity worked among the clergy ? there were a few ex ceptions â€” there was that man of eminent learning the right reverend bishop hawks of st louis â€” he was a son and was exerting a healthful influence among the rectors of his diocess what was the excuss of the bish ops and rectors of his church for standing at a distance in this work ? the church was a temperance society ; and for her to go into the temperance reform was to acknowledge her inability she was designed for thus favor ing the cause of infidelity his church court his fields and mr hugh mccommon and james heath's fields destroying crops fences and timbers wherever it swept in i its fury it tore down an outhouse form erly the dwelling house of mr hugh mc common to the ground sills â€” and passed through the entire length of his farm de stroying a kitchen and gin house on the plantation of mr james heath's ; thence it passed to the house of mr hugh mc common where it destroyed a negro house smokehouse and crushed about hall j down a brick kitchen and brick sleeping i room attached to the dwelling house ; thence it passed to the house of mr james heaths taking off the top of his gin-house i and demolishing his stables smoke house j and negro kitchens taking in its course a part of col wm walkup's plantation ; thence passed by mr hansom watson's and wm b cook's unroofing the dwell ing house of the former and tbe kitchen of ; the latter and thence about due north but with greatly diminished force its traces may be seen for some thirty miles but its most desolating blasts swept along j between mr james walkup's capt r s colvert james heath's and hugh mc common's where it looks as if old eolus opening all his caves and letting loose his fiercest blasts had rushed along himself with his mightiest bosom of destruction his desolating footsteps will be visible along this path for a century to come â€” j large massive oaks which had stood the | storms of a hundred winters were some completely lifted out of root some render ed completely limbless but almost all were broken off from 4 or 5 to 20 or 30 feet from the ground and hurled some 30 or 40 yards and some a quarter of a mile from their shattered stumps â€” not only the yielding shrubs but these stubborn timbers were crushed and de stroyed like stubble before some raging fire indeed the scorched appearance of the trees shrubs and grass along its route makes it have more the resemblance of some mighty fire than a whirlwind that has caused so much ruin although all have suffered severely along the track mr robert s colvert has suffered much more than any other man besides losing all his buildings which were good and substantial ones a consid erable amount of his property such as meat corn wheat clothing and furniture has been greatly injured or totally ruined it is asserted positively that the horse which was killed was blown some two hundred yards â€” a large trough full of tar was blown some ten yards â€” every tree in the yard and there were several forest was broke off blown up or left entirely limbless â€” the cabbage heads were twist ed off and blown out of root â€” the beets were pulled up â€” the chickens which were left could not muster a feather to their names but were as naked as our great parents when they were first placed in the garden of eden the rafters and joice were blown some two or three hundred yards and more and the plank shingles and palings were blown without doubt to the distance of some two and three miles the width of the tornado at mr col i vert's was about one hundred yards it swelled to the width of half a mile atoth | er places and seemed to divide intosmall ' er whirls at others the first notice any had of its approach was a noise like the hoarse rumbling of ' distant thunder â€” then the appearance of ' something like a dark rolling cloud â€” then : an insensible shock and crushing timbers hying rafters and reckless ruin stared ; around its speed must have been some ' where between sixty and one hundred i miles per hoar although every dwelling bouse that was blown down or unroou-d contained several persons at the time within it and ; some ofthe stables contained horses we i sway the battle storm at buena vista â€” and then from the very lap of victory write to one whose gallant son had died to make its crown when i miss his famil ! iar face i can say with truth that i feel no exultation in our success truly a great man has fallen in israel after alluding to his masterly defence of fort harrison when but a captain his florida campaign and his mexican victo ries by way of proving that a great man had fallen the lit rev preacher : proceeds to say : * * and more illustrious even than in victories : the greatness that preserved its equilibrium in the storm of ! national applause and universal admira j tion ; the greatness that could see the , proudest palm of human power planted ! before him within easiest reach and not ! put forth a hand to pluck it * * the ; greatness that went to washington and took the chair of state and tilled it with i the simple dignity lhat bad directed from | a tent the ordering of the battle field : the ; greatness of moderation : the greatness of modesty ; tbe greatness of self-modesty and control ; these do but wound our bleeding hearts more deeply while they swell them with a fuller higher admira tion of the real greatness of the great man who has gone from us to-day a snake story â€” the charleston va free ! press of yesterday relates ihe following sin gular circumstance : " a negro in dinwiddie j counly earn to his death a short time since in ihe following singular manner : he was ; sent into a field on an errand and not returning { as soon as expected search was made and he ; was found lying on the ground nearly dead his eyes strained from their sockets and exhibiting the appearance of strangulation on approach , ing nearer it was discovered lhat a large snake had crawled down his throat they atiempt ed to draw out the strike by the tail which ex tended a few inches out of the negro's mouth but il drew it in two and the negro died al the instant it is supposed lhat he lay down on the ground and fell asleep and the snake tiud t ing an entrance in the open mouth ol the ne gro and crawled down his throat thereby caus ing its own and the negro's death horrible sufferina â€” we are indebted to capt william h hopper of the central road â– for the following particulars : capt hopkins ol the steamer j d morton while on her pass age from chicago to new buffalo on friday last discovered what he supposed to be a rati wilh some one upon il some live miles in the lake he immediately turned his boat and went for the object he found the rafl made of spars with capt dividson of the schoonei thornton upon it il appears he was wreck ed on the 31si ult having been seven days and nights without food two ol the crew whose names we did not learn with the captain made the raft ofthe mainmast main boom and main gati the two men dropped off on the third night after having beome exhausted foi want of food captain hopkins describes the scene as most pitiful captain davidson bad commenced eating his hand the last night i â€” several steamers and vessels hue been in sight and one vessel bailed bim but made tin attempt io get bim off of course ibe c i is exceedingly weak but in a fair uaj lor re covery â€” detroit tribune a new cuticle â€” the scientific ametican savs that '* plasters ol dissolved gitia percha have been in use among the ' regular faculty1 for two vear chloroform is employed lo dis solve the ji'iita percha â€” the solution is first rate for cuts i a printer gets the points of bis fin gers cut or the cuticle worn wiib new r ; bim go to a druggist an i get hem p iuted with this gulta perc 1 1 liq j ; no bo wier is ii a to the fingers than the are covered wilh a thin white hud â– >â€¢ â€¢ hgring skin the cblorol n evapoi ites io an i _ audi area the g â€¢ c,,t ton diss red in ch r fi rm makes a good p ba ler also bul ii like gutla percha for ihe hands ; of a woikman candor and firmness that we will have our rights respected and while we are ready to make almost any sacrifice to preserve the un ion we cannot remain in it at a sac dice of our honor in a word we deÂ«iie lo see tho union preserved on its constitutional basis well knowing as we do lhat any thiii less than ihis is no union at all this is all we claim for the south â€” a respect for her lights â€” apolitical ' equably wilh the north the union is not so dear as to be purchased wilh abject vaÂ»silage â€” " we hold ihese truths to be sell evident lhat all men aie created equal ; i bai ihey are en dowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights : that among il.e-e are life liberty and the pursuit of happiness.*1 for the accomplishment of anv great end union is absolutely necessary as an advisa tory assemblage to mature pome settled policy by which we might secure j-i-tice we recom mended a convention from ihe slavehokftng states lo be appointed bv the people in their primary assemblages this convention met at nashville but owing to ihe hopes inspired by the compromise bills it wits thinly attended â€” the people of the souih being unwilling to take any action which would tend to blight the pros pects of adjustment the convenlion then though its proceedings were maikcd with dig nity and ability failed to effect its purpose and the south did not feel bound to unite in swear ing by its recommendations some burning with indignation at the shameful conduct of the north were for immediate secession and de nounced as submissiooists all who did not favor their peculiar plans while they in tuin were [ denounced as agitators ' traitor cc while conlemplaling this deplorable state of affairs we penned the article in question beaded the union of ihe south for lb sake ol preserving ; the federal union we wished lo see the people of the south compromise their peculiar individual notions and present an undivided front â€” bold mild firm and conciliatory â€” but determined in ihe maintenance of their rights in the mean time the adjustment bills are passed we lake occasion in another column to express our qualified gratification and trust that ihe discussion of si ivery may r ea-e for ever but we are forced ... say that the tardi ness of the norih and other indication of hos tility and contempt for us and our institutions present no favorable ninÂ»n il slavery i u evil it is a neccs-uv evil â€” if it i contrary to the principles of christianity we do not under stand ihe bible â€” to our iod and our con sciences we aie accountable â€” we endure ihe evil and if al any time we think proper to re medy ii it will then be quite soon enough for the noith to proffer her assistance we have ever contended thai slave h ilders have an unquestionable right to carry their propeity to any of ihe territories of ihe failed slates but we were willing to appease the north by voluntarily surrendering that right noith of 363 30 or promise ol final settlement but scarce a generation has ; n the stage of action and the goddess ol disc -. i on tbe magnanimous and illustrious author of the missouri compromise to appease her ! iry a second time by sacrificing to the insatiate lust of fanaticism the lion's si ire ol ibe spoils which ourcommon 1 lired finally we would advise ihe south to make use of ihe pr - i to build up her on . rown < om merce u callural and mil â€” i word pat ronise home iudustry â€¢â– ! â€¢ . â€” - will make us i - will com mand ns propei respect l â€¢ n of jus tice at the hands of < ir northern brethren an eastern lecturer remarked tliat it would iiot be a very v_a enl strel h of the imagination to believe "!!< i _ v.ful massachusetts or connecticut baby six months old sits in bis mother's .' ip i ;â€¢ bis own cradle to sei i not rn vi-.-it a better or al least sugges die improvement love al - p ve our mothers ; at sis < â€¢'â€¢ i ten holidays at >.\ * â– ' r . vei-th arts : t tweni - ; forty money and o_r . al sixty ourselves ery assurance that her voice was of sur passing sweetness nothing could exceed fhe pathos devo tion and tender fervor of her rendering of this delightful druidical prayer i heard staffanoni sing it last night but the lind's was the tinkling of silver bells to the ve ry cow bell in comparison of the sweet voiced italian in volume strength and expression her voice can be compared to none other i ever heard â€” it is a constant gushing melody â€” flowing without an ef fort or impediment â€” brilliant in the upper register and managed with an effect that baffles all description â€” like boscha's va riations on the harp â€” pure and sonorous in the middle notes and clear deep and sustained with the most perfect truth and evenness in the lower scale we had heard her voice described as a throat voice under astonishing management ; but her tones come from her chest as so norously as they do from the gigantic ma rin the following is the prize song written by bayard taylor which was sung amidst the greatest applause it is entitled greeting to america 1 frreet with a full heart the lmid ofthe west whose banner of stars o'er a world is unrolled ; whose empire o'ershadowa atlantic's wide breast and opens to the sunset its gateway of gold ! the land of the mountain â€” the land of the lake anil rivers tliat roll in magnificent tide where the souls of the mighty from slumber awake and hallow the soil tor whose freedom they died thou cradle of empire ! though wide he the foam thai revere the land of my fathers from thee i hear from thy bosom the welcome of home â€” for bong has a home in the hearts ofthe free ! and long as thy waters shall gleam in tbe sun and long as thy heroes remember their scars be the hands of thy children united as one and peace sluil her light on thy banner of stars at the close of the concert mr bar total 86,404,300 40 a washington correspondent of the baltimore clipper relates the following i must here give you an anecdote that illustrates the character of the principal editor of the southern press when the lodgers in the national hotel began to il luminate their rooms last saturday night in honor of the salvation of the union and the south from the horrors of civil war and disunion mr fisher is said to have remonstrated with the proprietor or man ager of the establishment who very pro perly refused to intervene in the matter i will leave your house instantly if this illumination be not immediately stopped " you are at liberty sir to leave it when you please â€” was the quiet reply ; and i understand the aforesaid editor was as good as his word if he and his co-work ers in treason and iniquity would leave the union because of its rejoicing on this occasion it would be a happy riddance of a pestiferous club of enemies to the coun try and its institutions eously styled hersell the church â€” yes she ar rogated lo herself that she was the church to the exclusion of all others would his meth odist friends agree lo lhat would his hap tist and presbyterian friends agree to such ex travagant claims as these being set up by any one denomination ? they would not â€” they ought not he believed there was loo much ol faith and too little of work among his bre thren there was abundant cause for ail the servants of god to join together in this good work against the devil with united hearts and counsels and endeavor to make a stand for re ligion for humanity for patriotism and to re num announced the following donations which jenny lind intended to make fire department fund 31100 musical fund society 2000 home for the friendless 500 society for the relief of indigent females 500 dramatic fund association 500 home for colored aged persons 500 colon i orphan asylum 500 lying in asylum t'^r destitute females 500 new york orphan asylum 500 unman catholic half-orphan asylum 500 protestant half-orphan asylum 500 old ladies asylum 500 noiseless carriage wheels and horse shoes in the mining journal of july 22 1848 we no > ticed the introduction ol some improvements in the construction of wheels for carriages by mr andrew smith ihe patentee of the wire rope machinery which were likely to prove of much value to the public as not only adding greatly to comfort in travelling over paved streets ft om their combining a much greater de gree of safety the principle consists iu form ing the hoop or type of two separate layers of galvanized iron which are riveted together and re galvanized in the mass : this division of pans culling off all vibration when travelling over the roughest stones mr andrew smith has also applied the principle to springs in which each plate is galvanised separately and never rust the axle is so made to fit ihe axle box wilh perfect exactness by a lining of fusi ble metal is itself lubricating and not liable to heat ; the whole in conjunciion secures a de gree of quiet ease and safety hitherto unattained we lime been led again lo notice these ingen ious improvements from the fact that the pa tentee having produced a noiseless carriage found that ihe horses feet made more noise than ever and seeking for a remedy has ap plied the principle to ihe horses shoe this is effected in the most simple manner by making the shoes in two thicknesses of galvanised me tal then riveting them together and re galvan ising a horse equipped in these pumps trots over the granite streets of london as softly as il he was on a bowling green â€” london mining journal press as much as in them lay the use of in toxicating liquors sold and drank an old whiskey-drinker known as tom deavenport rose up and interrupted the speak ! er â€” told him ho was mistaken â€” he was speak ing about for money mr white called him j to the stand â€” said he would like to hear his objections to the cause of temperance and his defense of rum sellers and drunkards ! â€” old tom's reply was that he " worked for his money and paid for his liquor and il was no body's business how much he drank mr ! white insisted then lhat he should go upon the j stand â€” take his stand by his side and that he | would use him to illustrate and show others ihe necessity of becoming temperance men ! j old tom however took leave of the crowd â€” j sat off up the hill denouncing the cause as | he went the orator bid him good by and ; announced â€” there goes an old jug with the ( stopper out i he said that he never spoke of j himself but as ihe charge of speaking for mo [ ney had been brought against him he would just say thai he had spent more money iu ihe j temperance cause than he had ever received â€” he had given up a practice as a lawyer worth several thousand dollars per annum lo labor in ! this cause he never lifted a collection for his i benefit or had it done he expected his ex j penses would be borne by ihe sons â€” this he i had a right lo expect he had already spent j much lime and money in this great work â€” bul j duty lo himself and family would require him j to return to his profession the ensuing winter this much he had deemed due lo himself and to the cause in which he was engaged brownloxc's whig sept 14 the correspondent ofthe morning chronicle : at rome shows to what a learful condition the i city of the ca.sars has been brought : " the population which was 180,000 is re i duced lo 130,000 ; the inquisition is re-estab ; lished ; the pope and clergy held in contempt [ and hatred ; thousands killed by the sword or ; musket during the siege ; widows orphans j bankrupts and distress in every shape ; spies : and sbirri prowling in search ot their prey the liberals diffidence introduced into lamilies : all social ties rent assunder ; an empty treasu ; ry ; papal currency al a discount of 13 per cent ali the medical men and lawyers of any talent ' driven into exile commerce annihilated and young men of respectable families without em ployment and many without food mrs miller w7e learn from a source fully entided to cred l it that mrs miller whose sudden disappear ; ance and supposed suicide at niagara falls â– elicited so much remark a few months since | has within a few days returned to the borne j of her father the late senator norvell al de ' troil michigan who has died during her ab ! sence the stories wilh which the press has ; teemed about her having gone to europe in ; company with a gentleman c are wholly 1 unfounded she returns of her own accord ' drawn mainly we belive by a strong desire lo see her children â€” x y commercial i the queen of the west â€” the political ' growth of ohio is one of the curiosities of our i republic lt exhibits the expansive power of the representative system in a remarkable man â€¢ ner take the following historical facts as an illustration of this idea here is a table of the increase of representatives iu congress after each successive census : from 1803 to 1813 ohio had 1 , " 1813 to 1823 do 6 | " 1623 to 1833 do 13 â€¢Â« 1833 to 1843 do 19 " 1s43 to 1850 do 21 the man now lives in his plain frame house ' ! on the batiks of the miami who was for ten years the sole representative of ohio in the con gress of the united stales no parallel to this fact can be found on record â€” cincinnati atlas i r the publication of tbe georgia citizen at macon * has b-en resumed this is the paper which was rder 1 ed by a public meeting to be discontinued because it contained a communication signed gabriel winch i spoke with disgust ofthe erection near the hoti ; at at ta of a depot for the safe keeping â€¢':. jrroesl rs â€¢ the editor gave u he author's name bat tbe . \ c mmanded bim not to issue - number - - per this joth alt on the paper re ippean l t edil r â– â– .. i : - - " ! delay t bot expres a tbe hope that it wii appear regularly h-re j after and that the its foes will soon i duedinton spectful obedience to the majesty of lh iw j a d the inviolability of . . â– â€¢ â– â– â€¢-='- citizen's rights 2 ; v o picayune pen manufacture â€” nearly l.r>0 tons of steel are annually employed in eng land in making pens a northern paper says lhat although daniel webster has filled many honora ble and important stations he has now gone to fillmore jenny lind's recent arrival and the in effable donkeyisms perpetrated thereon by the masses in new york make up the burden ol the song ofthe city papers philips white's address friday last was a grand gala day with the sons of temperance in knoxville and knox county they former in procession followed ly a section ol cadets and preceded by a hand ot music marched to that beautiful grove on methodist hill where a convenient stand was erected and seats prepared lop the occasion thai powerful and eloquent man whose name is at the head of this article addressed a crowil ol â€” from fifteen hundred to two thousand ladies and gentlemen for two hours overpowering ihe audience wilh his oratory and astonishing all present wilh his graphic and thrilling pictures we regret our inability to spread his en'ire address before our readers â€” for it abounded in so many passages of real eloquence beauty and lorce that it would constrain right thinking men everywhere eilher to join the sons or cease all opposition to them he urged the claims of the temperance reform with words of truth accompanied with the fire of living oracles illustrating his bold and tearless posi tions by fads and figures which carried con viction to every heart â€” and applying the com bined force of both the precepts and doctrines ofthe temperance reform lo practical life and godliness the sublime truths uttered by him â€” while ihey were weighty and eloquent were not hidden under the lustre of tropes and exu berant fancy or the polish of rounded periods he fought with the drawn sword of justice and truth he urged the simultaneous and inseperable reformation of the heart and its vicious outbreakings in the external conduct no impartial hearer could misunderstand his sentiments or doubt of the drunkard's soul as well as the preservation of his health and body he spoke eloquently and feelingly ofthe na tional and political corruptions of our country

p ir year.turo dollars â€” payable in if not paid in advance two dollars . will e charged nserted al 1 forthe first and 25 cts uent insertion court orders clnrged ier than iliese rates a liberal deduc who advertise by the year ;: litors must be post pnid r_______r ( ! k \ x v li x d's fi rst co n c e rt lenny lind's first concert look place at i j ; uiicii i\ew york on wednesday 'â€¢ ening 1,1 southern rights we have never been dispos d to bluster or agitate we cherish with devotion ihe great and glorious american union and venerate that matchless instrument â€” the constitution this we consider the great chatter of our lib erties â€” aiid this must be preserved inviolate if we would maintain our freedom as individuals â€” our sovereignty a independent states â€” our invincible power and coi - _ andeuras a great hap y and gl ri as l â– â€¢:â€¢ w e do not believe ilii 1 consolidated govern ment all rights not expressly surrendered under the federal organization are in the lan guage of the const it ui ion u reserved to the slates respectively or the people we have no advocated dissolution secession or anv oih ] er revolulionaij movement though it is our linn conviction lhat some such art ion iu ease of ex . treme oppression is the inherent right of the injured party be it a single state or a moity of them all we do not believe ihis period has arrived and we pray heaven that sad day fore shadowing the hoi iid storms ot civil war to america and black night to the cause of free dom throughout the world may never visit our prosperous land hut who can let how soon ii may be forced upon us by the mad final icism of northern aggression ' it is not necessary here to speak of iheir palpable and dailv vio latioiis of that most sacred of human obliga tions â€” the constitution of the united slates suffice it to say it has been icpeatedly and grossly violated and all their obligations and all our rights have been deliberately trampled 1 upon it behooves us then as freemen â€” asde seendants of revolutionary soldiers â€” to pre pare ourselves for the worst let us tell our northern bretlfren in the spirit of conciliation ( new series do this axd ltbektvis safe < gen i harrison ( volume vii number 20 j j bruner ' kelp a cnr.ck cro all your \ rulers editor 4 proprietor salisbury n c thursday september 26 1850 and traced much ol both to the intemperate use of ardent spirits he drew a most humil iating but true picture ofthe present congress of the united states â€” asserted that while members of both houses of congress were making one or two topics the monomaniac themes of iheir speeches for the sake of their eight dollars per day many of ihem were roll ing in filth drinking themselves to death and disgracing the districts and states they were unfortunately representing the public cor ruption of morals in congress and national sins received at his hands their just share of rebuke in the midst of the general catalogue of iniquities the origin and spread of which ho traced to ihe use of ardent spirits mr while staled in reference to the church es thai nineteen twentieths of the methodist clergy united with the sons in the temper ance reform wherever he went in canada or these united slates the missionary baptists also came lo the rescue â€” the new school pres byterians gave the cause their aid but it pained him to state that the episcopal church of which he was a member stood aloof with but few exceptions some of the bishops of lhat church actually wrole treaties and de livered set discourses against the sons and charged the sons of promoting the cause of infidelity thai church he was sorry to say had won for itself the unenviable sobriquet ol the rum church how could it be other wise when this mystery of iniquity worked among the clergy ? there were a few ex ceptions â€” there was that man of eminent learning the right reverend bishop hawks of st louis â€” he was a son and was exerting a healthful influence among the rectors of his diocess what was the excuss of the bish ops and rectors of his church for standing at a distance in this work ? the church was a temperance society ; and for her to go into the temperance reform was to acknowledge her inability she was designed for thus favor ing the cause of infidelity his church court his fields and mr hugh mccommon and james heath's fields destroying crops fences and timbers wherever it swept in i its fury it tore down an outhouse form erly the dwelling house of mr hugh mc common to the ground sills â€” and passed through the entire length of his farm de stroying a kitchen and gin house on the plantation of mr james heath's ; thence it passed to the house of mr hugh mc common where it destroyed a negro house smokehouse and crushed about hall j down a brick kitchen and brick sleeping i room attached to the dwelling house ; thence it passed to the house of mr james heaths taking off the top of his gin-house i and demolishing his stables smoke house j and negro kitchens taking in its course a part of col wm walkup's plantation ; thence passed by mr hansom watson's and wm b cook's unroofing the dwell ing house of the former and tbe kitchen of ; the latter and thence about due north but with greatly diminished force its traces may be seen for some thirty miles but its most desolating blasts swept along j between mr james walkup's capt r s colvert james heath's and hugh mc common's where it looks as if old eolus opening all his caves and letting loose his fiercest blasts had rushed along himself with his mightiest bosom of destruction his desolating footsteps will be visible along this path for a century to come â€” j large massive oaks which had stood the | storms of a hundred winters were some completely lifted out of root some render ed completely limbless but almost all were broken off from 4 or 5 to 20 or 30 feet from the ground and hurled some 30 or 40 yards and some a quarter of a mile from their shattered stumps â€” not only the yielding shrubs but these stubborn timbers were crushed and de stroyed like stubble before some raging fire indeed the scorched appearance of the trees shrubs and grass along its route makes it have more the resemblance of some mighty fire than a whirlwind that has caused so much ruin although all have suffered severely along the track mr robert s colvert has suffered much more than any other man besides losing all his buildings which were good and substantial ones a consid erable amount of his property such as meat corn wheat clothing and furniture has been greatly injured or totally ruined it is asserted positively that the horse which was killed was blown some two hundred yards â€” a large trough full of tar was blown some ten yards â€” every tree in the yard and there were several forest was broke off blown up or left entirely limbless â€” the cabbage heads were twist ed off and blown out of root â€” the beets were pulled up â€” the chickens which were left could not muster a feather to their names but were as naked as our great parents when they were first placed in the garden of eden the rafters and joice were blown some two or three hundred yards and more and the plank shingles and palings were blown without doubt to the distance of some two and three miles the width of the tornado at mr col i vert's was about one hundred yards it swelled to the width of half a mile atoth | er places and seemed to divide intosmall ' er whirls at others the first notice any had of its approach was a noise like the hoarse rumbling of ' distant thunder â€” then the appearance of ' something like a dark rolling cloud â€” then : an insensible shock and crushing timbers hying rafters and reckless ruin stared ; around its speed must have been some ' where between sixty and one hundred i miles per hoar although every dwelling bouse that was blown down or unroou-d contained several persons at the time within it and ; some ofthe stables contained horses we i sway the battle storm at buena vista â€” and then from the very lap of victory write to one whose gallant son had died to make its crown when i miss his famil ! iar face i can say with truth that i feel no exultation in our success truly a great man has fallen in israel after alluding to his masterly defence of fort harrison when but a captain his florida campaign and his mexican victo ries by way of proving that a great man had fallen the lit rev preacher : proceeds to say : * * and more illustrious even than in victories : the greatness that preserved its equilibrium in the storm of ! national applause and universal admira j tion ; the greatness that could see the , proudest palm of human power planted ! before him within easiest reach and not ! put forth a hand to pluck it * * the ; greatness that went to washington and took the chair of state and tilled it with i the simple dignity lhat bad directed from | a tent the ordering of the battle field : the ; greatness of moderation : the greatness of modesty ; tbe greatness of self-modesty and control ; these do but wound our bleeding hearts more deeply while they swell them with a fuller higher admira tion of the real greatness of the great man who has gone from us to-day a snake story â€” the charleston va free ! press of yesterday relates ihe following sin gular circumstance : " a negro in dinwiddie j counly earn to his death a short time since in ihe following singular manner : he was ; sent into a field on an errand and not returning { as soon as expected search was made and he ; was found lying on the ground nearly dead his eyes strained from their sockets and exhibiting the appearance of strangulation on approach , ing nearer it was discovered lhat a large snake had crawled down his throat they atiempt ed to draw out the strike by the tail which ex tended a few inches out of the negro's mouth but il drew it in two and the negro died al the instant it is supposed lhat he lay down on the ground and fell asleep and the snake tiud t ing an entrance in the open mouth ol the ne gro and crawled down his throat thereby caus ing its own and the negro's death horrible sufferina â€” we are indebted to capt william h hopper of the central road â– for the following particulars : capt hopkins ol the steamer j d morton while on her pass age from chicago to new buffalo on friday last discovered what he supposed to be a rati wilh some one upon il some live miles in the lake he immediately turned his boat and went for the object he found the rafl made of spars with capt dividson of the schoonei thornton upon it il appears he was wreck ed on the 31si ult having been seven days and nights without food two ol the crew whose names we did not learn with the captain made the raft ofthe mainmast main boom and main gati the two men dropped off on the third night after having beome exhausted foi want of food captain hopkins describes the scene as most pitiful captain davidson bad commenced eating his hand the last night i â€” several steamers and vessels hue been in sight and one vessel bailed bim but made tin attempt io get bim off of course ibe c i is exceedingly weak but in a fair uaj lor re covery â€” detroit tribune a new cuticle â€” the scientific ametican savs that '* plasters ol dissolved gitia percha have been in use among the ' regular faculty1 for two vear chloroform is employed lo dis solve the ji'iita percha â€” the solution is first rate for cuts i a printer gets the points of bis fin gers cut or the cuticle worn wiib new r ; bim go to a druggist an i get hem p iuted with this gulta perc 1 1 liq j ; no bo wier is ii a to the fingers than the are covered wilh a thin white hud â– >â€¢ â€¢ hgring skin the cblorol n evapoi ites io an i _ audi area the g â€¢ c,,t ton diss red in ch r fi rm makes a good p ba ler also bul ii like gutla percha for ihe hands ; of a woikman candor and firmness that we will have our rights respected and while we are ready to make almost any sacrifice to preserve the un ion we cannot remain in it at a sac dice of our honor in a word we deÂ«iie lo see tho union preserved on its constitutional basis well knowing as we do lhat any thiii less than ihis is no union at all this is all we claim for the south â€” a respect for her lights â€” apolitical ' equably wilh the north the union is not so dear as to be purchased wilh abject vaÂ»silage â€” " we hold ihese truths to be sell evident lhat all men aie created equal ; i bai ihey are en dowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights : that among il.e-e are life liberty and the pursuit of happiness.*1 for the accomplishment of anv great end union is absolutely necessary as an advisa tory assemblage to mature pome settled policy by which we might secure j-i-tice we recom mended a convention from ihe slavehokftng states lo be appointed bv the people in their primary assemblages this convention met at nashville but owing to ihe hopes inspired by the compromise bills it wits thinly attended â€” the people of the souih being unwilling to take any action which would tend to blight the pros pects of adjustment the convenlion then though its proceedings were maikcd with dig nity and ability failed to effect its purpose and the south did not feel bound to unite in swear ing by its recommendations some burning with indignation at the shameful conduct of the north were for immediate secession and de nounced as submissiooists all who did not favor their peculiar plans while they in tuin were [ denounced as agitators ' traitor cc while conlemplaling this deplorable state of affairs we penned the article in question beaded the union of ihe south for lb sake ol preserving ; the federal union we wished lo see the people of the south compromise their peculiar individual notions and present an undivided front â€” bold mild firm and conciliatory â€” but determined in ihe maintenance of their rights in the mean time the adjustment bills are passed we lake occasion in another column to express our qualified gratification and trust that ihe discussion of si ivery may r ea-e for ever but we are forced ... say that the tardi ness of the norih and other indication of hos tility and contempt for us and our institutions present no favorable ninÂ»n il slavery i u evil it is a neccs-uv evil â€” if it i contrary to the principles of christianity we do not under stand ihe bible â€” to our iod and our con sciences we aie accountable â€” we endure ihe evil and if al any time we think proper to re medy ii it will then be quite soon enough for the noith to proffer her assistance we have ever contended thai slave h ilders have an unquestionable right to carry their propeity to any of ihe territories of ihe failed slates but we were willing to appease the north by voluntarily surrendering that right noith of 363 30 or promise ol final settlement but scarce a generation has ; n the stage of action and the goddess ol disc -. i on tbe magnanimous and illustrious author of the missouri compromise to appease her ! iry a second time by sacrificing to the insatiate lust of fanaticism the lion's si ire ol ibe spoils which ourcommon 1 lired finally we would advise ihe south to make use of ihe pr - i to build up her on . rown < om merce u callural and mil â€” i word pat ronise home iudustry â€¢â– ! â€¢ . â€” - will make us i - will com mand ns propei respect l â€¢ n of jus tice at the hands of < ir northern brethren an eastern lecturer remarked tliat it would iiot be a very v_a enl strel h of the imagination to believe "!!< i _ v.ful massachusetts or connecticut baby six months old sits in bis mother's .' ip i ;â€¢ bis own cradle to sei i not rn vi-.-it a better or al least sugges die improvement love al - p ve our mothers ; at sis < â€¢'â€¢ i ten holidays at >.\ * â– ' r . vei-th arts : t tweni - ; forty money and o_r . al sixty ourselves ery assurance that her voice was of sur passing sweetness nothing could exceed fhe pathos devo tion and tender fervor of her rendering of this delightful druidical prayer i heard staffanoni sing it last night but the lind's was the tinkling of silver bells to the ve ry cow bell in comparison of the sweet voiced italian in volume strength and expression her voice can be compared to none other i ever heard â€” it is a constant gushing melody â€” flowing without an ef fort or impediment â€” brilliant in the upper register and managed with an effect that baffles all description â€” like boscha's va riations on the harp â€” pure and sonorous in the middle notes and clear deep and sustained with the most perfect truth and evenness in the lower scale we had heard her voice described as a throat voice under astonishing management ; but her tones come from her chest as so norously as they do from the gigantic ma rin the following is the prize song written by bayard taylor which was sung amidst the greatest applause it is entitled greeting to america 1 frreet with a full heart the lmid ofthe west whose banner of stars o'er a world is unrolled ; whose empire o'ershadowa atlantic's wide breast and opens to the sunset its gateway of gold ! the land of the mountain â€” the land of the lake anil rivers tliat roll in magnificent tide where the souls of the mighty from slumber awake and hallow the soil tor whose freedom they died thou cradle of empire ! though wide he the foam thai revere the land of my fathers from thee i hear from thy bosom the welcome of home â€” for bong has a home in the hearts ofthe free ! and long as thy waters shall gleam in tbe sun and long as thy heroes remember their scars be the hands of thy children united as one and peace sluil her light on thy banner of stars at the close of the concert mr bar total 86,404,300 40 a washington correspondent of the baltimore clipper relates the following i must here give you an anecdote that illustrates the character of the principal editor of the southern press when the lodgers in the national hotel began to il luminate their rooms last saturday night in honor of the salvation of the union and the south from the horrors of civil war and disunion mr fisher is said to have remonstrated with the proprietor or man ager of the establishment who very pro perly refused to intervene in the matter i will leave your house instantly if this illumination be not immediately stopped " you are at liberty sir to leave it when you please â€” was the quiet reply ; and i understand the aforesaid editor was as good as his word if he and his co-work ers in treason and iniquity would leave the union because of its rejoicing on this occasion it would be a happy riddance of a pestiferous club of enemies to the coun try and its institutions eously styled hersell the church â€” yes she ar rogated lo herself that she was the church to the exclusion of all others would his meth odist friends agree lo lhat would his hap tist and presbyterian friends agree to such ex travagant claims as these being set up by any one denomination ? they would not â€” they ought not he believed there was loo much ol faith and too little of work among his bre thren there was abundant cause for ail the servants of god to join together in this good work against the devil with united hearts and counsels and endeavor to make a stand for re ligion for humanity for patriotism and to re num announced the following donations which jenny lind intended to make fire department fund 31100 musical fund society 2000 home for the friendless 500 society for the relief of indigent females 500 dramatic fund association 500 home for colored aged persons 500 colon i orphan asylum 500 lying in asylum t'^r destitute females 500 new york orphan asylum 500 unman catholic half-orphan asylum 500 protestant half-orphan asylum 500 old ladies asylum 500 noiseless carriage wheels and horse shoes in the mining journal of july 22 1848 we no > ticed the introduction ol some improvements in the construction of wheels for carriages by mr andrew smith ihe patentee of the wire rope machinery which were likely to prove of much value to the public as not only adding greatly to comfort in travelling over paved streets ft om their combining a much greater de gree of safety the principle consists iu form ing the hoop or type of two separate layers of galvanized iron which are riveted together and re galvanized in the mass : this division of pans culling off all vibration when travelling over the roughest stones mr andrew smith has also applied the principle to springs in which each plate is galvanised separately and never rust the axle is so made to fit ihe axle box wilh perfect exactness by a lining of fusi ble metal is itself lubricating and not liable to heat ; the whole in conjunciion secures a de gree of quiet ease and safety hitherto unattained we lime been led again lo notice these ingen ious improvements from the fact that the pa tentee having produced a noiseless carriage found that ihe horses feet made more noise than ever and seeking for a remedy has ap plied the principle to ihe horses shoe this is effected in the most simple manner by making the shoes in two thicknesses of galvanised me tal then riveting them together and re galvan ising a horse equipped in these pumps trots over the granite streets of london as softly as il he was on a bowling green â€” london mining journal press as much as in them lay the use of in toxicating liquors sold and drank an old whiskey-drinker known as tom deavenport rose up and interrupted the speak ! er â€” told him ho was mistaken â€” he was speak ing about for money mr white called him j to the stand â€” said he would like to hear his objections to the cause of temperance and his defense of rum sellers and drunkards ! â€” old tom's reply was that he " worked for his money and paid for his liquor and il was no body's business how much he drank mr ! white insisted then lhat he should go upon the j stand â€” take his stand by his side and that he | would use him to illustrate and show others ihe necessity of becoming temperance men ! j old tom however took leave of the crowd â€” j sat off up the hill denouncing the cause as | he went the orator bid him good by and ; announced â€” there goes an old jug with the ( stopper out i he said that he never spoke of j himself but as ihe charge of speaking for mo [ ney had been brought against him he would just say thai he had spent more money iu ihe j temperance cause than he had ever received â€” he had given up a practice as a lawyer worth several thousand dollars per annum lo labor in ! this cause he never lifted a collection for his i benefit or had it done he expected his ex j penses would be borne by ihe sons â€” this he i had a right lo expect he had already spent j much lime and money in this great work â€” bul j duty lo himself and family would require him j to return to his profession the ensuing winter this much he had deemed due lo himself and to the cause in which he was engaged brownloxc's whig sept 14 the correspondent ofthe morning chronicle : at rome shows to what a learful condition the i city of the ca.sars has been brought : " the population which was 180,000 is re i duced lo 130,000 ; the inquisition is re-estab ; lished ; the pope and clergy held in contempt [ and hatred ; thousands killed by the sword or ; musket during the siege ; widows orphans j bankrupts and distress in every shape ; spies : and sbirri prowling in search ot their prey the liberals diffidence introduced into lamilies : all social ties rent assunder ; an empty treasu ; ry ; papal currency al a discount of 13 per cent ali the medical men and lawyers of any talent ' driven into exile commerce annihilated and young men of respectable families without em ployment and many without food mrs miller w7e learn from a source fully entided to cred l it that mrs miller whose sudden disappear ; ance and supposed suicide at niagara falls â– elicited so much remark a few months since | has within a few days returned to the borne j of her father the late senator norvell al de ' troil michigan who has died during her ab ! sence the stories wilh which the press has ; teemed about her having gone to europe in ; company with a gentleman c are wholly 1 unfounded she returns of her own accord ' drawn mainly we belive by a strong desire lo see her children â€” x y commercial i the queen of the west â€” the political ' growth of ohio is one of the curiosities of our i republic lt exhibits the expansive power of the representative system in a remarkable man â€¢ ner take the following historical facts as an illustration of this idea here is a table of the increase of representatives iu congress after each successive census : from 1803 to 1813 ohio had 1 , " 1813 to 1823 do 6 | " 1623 to 1833 do 13 â€¢Â« 1833 to 1843 do 19 " 1s43 to 1850 do 21 the man now lives in his plain frame house ' ! on the batiks of the miami who was for ten years the sole representative of ohio in the con gress of the united stales no parallel to this fact can be found on record â€” cincinnati atlas i r the publication of tbe georgia citizen at macon * has b-en resumed this is the paper which was rder 1 ed by a public meeting to be discontinued because it contained a communication signed gabriel winch i spoke with disgust ofthe erection near the hoti ; at at ta of a depot for the safe keeping â€¢':. jrroesl rs â€¢ the editor gave u he author's name bat tbe . \ c mmanded bim not to issue - number - - per this joth alt on the paper re ippean l t edil r â– â– .. i : - - " ! delay t bot expres a tbe hope that it wii appear regularly h-re j after and that the its foes will soon i duedinton spectful obedience to the majesty of lh iw j a d the inviolability of . . â– â€¢ â– â– â€¢-='- citizen's rights 2 ; v o picayune pen manufacture â€” nearly l.r>0 tons of steel are annually employed in eng land in making pens a northern paper says lhat although daniel webster has filled many honora ble and important stations he has now gone to fillmore jenny lind's recent arrival and the in effable donkeyisms perpetrated thereon by the masses in new york make up the burden ol the song ofthe city papers philips white's address friday last was a grand gala day with the sons of temperance in knoxville and knox county they former in procession followed ly a section ol cadets and preceded by a hand ot music marched to that beautiful grove on methodist hill where a convenient stand was erected and seats prepared lop the occasion thai powerful and eloquent man whose name is at the head of this article addressed a crowil ol â€” from fifteen hundred to two thousand ladies and gentlemen for two hours overpowering ihe audience wilh his oratory and astonishing all present wilh his graphic and thrilling pictures we regret our inability to spread his en'ire address before our readers â€” for it abounded in so many passages of real eloquence beauty and lorce that it would constrain right thinking men everywhere eilher to join the sons or cease all opposition to them he urged the claims of the temperance reform with words of truth accompanied with the fire of living oracles illustrating his bold and tearless posi tions by fads and figures which carried con viction to every heart â€” and applying the com bined force of both the precepts and doctrines ofthe temperance reform lo practical life and godliness the sublime truths uttered by him â€” while ihey were weighty and eloquent were not hidden under the lustre of tropes and exu berant fancy or the polish of rounded periods he fought with the drawn sword of justice and truth he urged the simultaneous and inseperable reformation of the heart and its vicious outbreakings in the external conduct no impartial hearer could misunderstand his sentiments or doubt of the drunkard's soul as well as the preservation of his health and body he spoke eloquently and feelingly ofthe na tional and political corruptions of our country